Amish Beard Cutting

Beard-Cutting Update: Judge Rejects Amish Hate Crime Law Challenge

AP | ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS | Posted 05.31.2012

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — A judge has rejected a challenge of the federal hate crimes law by Amish defendants charged in beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amis...

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Ringleader In Amish Attacks Is Flush With Cash

AP | Posted 04.30.2012

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CLEVELAND — Prosecutors and defense attorneys are sparring over whether father-and-son suspects in beard- and hair-cutting attacks against fello...

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Amish Beard Attacks: The Fight Enters Court

AP | THOMAS J. SHEERAN | Posted 04.19.2012

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CLEVELAND — Sixteen men and women pleaded not guilty Thursday in beard- and hair-cutting attacks against fellow Amish in Ohio. The 10 men and s...

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Amish Hair-Cutting Case Grows -- 4 Women Busted

Reuters | Posted 05.30.2012

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By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND, March 29 (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors have expanded a hate crimes case against followers of Ohio Amish sec...

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Hate Crimes Law Used To Prosecute Amish Beard Attacks

Posted 03.22.2012

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By Harlan Spector Religion News Service CLEVELAND (RNS) A pair of scissors transported across state lines has emerged as a controversial element i...

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Alleged Ringleader In Amish Beard Cutting Trial Must Pay For Lawyer

AP | THOMAS J. SHEERAN | Posted 03.21.2012

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CLEVELAND -- The alleged ringleader in beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio cannot rely on taxpayers to pay his legal bills, a federal judge ...

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Lawyers For Accused Amish Beard-Cutting Gang Challenge Hate Crime

The Huffington Post | Michael McLaughlin | Posted 03.07.2012

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An Amish sect accused of cutting off the beards of its rivals in Ohio is now challenging the constitutionality of the hate crime law under which they ...

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Amish Defendants Plead Not Guilty To Beard-Cutting Attacks

Reuters | Posted 03.12.2012

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By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Twelve members of an Amish splinter group in Ohio pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to char...

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Amish Beard Cuttings Were Hate Crimes, Prosecutors Allege

AP | THOMAS J. SHEERAN | Posted 02.20.2012

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CLEVELAND — Twelve members of a breakaway Amish group were charged with federal hate crimes in beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in eastern ...

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Amish Terror!

Jeff Danziger | Posted 01.26.2012

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FBI Arrests Alleged Ringleader And Six Others In Amish Beard Cutting Case

AP | THOMAS J. SHEERAN and JOHN SEEWER | Posted 01.23.2012

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MILLERSBURG, Ohio — The leader of a breakaway Amish group allowed the beatings of those who disobeyed him, made some members sleep in a chicken ...

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Amish Man's Beard Cut In Another Ohio Attack: Sheriff

AP | Posted 01.11.2012

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STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — An elderly Amish man was attacked by his own son, who a sheriff said cut the man's hair and beard in the latest incident in...

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Beard-Cutting Attacks Throw Spotlight On Amish Sect

Posted 12.18.2011

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By Aaron Marshall Religion News Service CARROLLTON, Ohio (RNS) Arlene Miller's 15-year-old daughter had just awakened her and her husband, Myron, ...

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Amish Seek Outside Help After Attacks On Their Beards By Rogue Sect

AP | ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and JOHN SEEWER | Posted 12.16.2011

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CARROLLTON, Ohio — Leaders within Ohio's Amish community faced a soul-searching question after what they say were hair-cutting attacks against ...

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Amish Leader Calls Beard-Cutting Attack A Religious Matter

AP | ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS | Posted 12.10.2011

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BERGHOLZ, Ohio — The leader of an Amish group with members accused of going into the home of another Amish man and cutting his hair and beard sa...

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WATCH: 4 Arrested In Amish Beard-Cutting Attacks

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Muessig | Posted 12.10.2011

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After several Amish people were held down against their will and given unwanted haircuts, police have arrested four members of a rival Amish group. ...

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Amish On Amish Violence: Rogue Sect Cutting Off Rivals' Beards

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McLaughlin | Posted 12.07.2011

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Sheriff's deputies are closing in on suspects from a troublemaking Amish splinter group in Ohio who have broken into homes and cut off the beards and ...

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